-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kam Leo wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:22:32 -0500 (EST), Matthew Saltzman > <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Mark Haney wrote: >> >>>> The best source for Java for FC is jpackage.org. A bit of a >>>> learning curve, but it generally works much better than the Sun >>>> RPMs. >> >> I've added a layer of '>''s to mark the part of your message that was >> a quote of my message. If you could configure your mail client to >> quote messages in a similar way, that would help readability. >> >>> Does the jpackage version work with Firefox in FC3? >> >> The jpackage Java RPMs require that you grab the Sun (or other) >> compiler as a tarball and the jpackage nosource RPM, then build the >> RPMs yourself. The instructions are on the jpackage.org site. >> >> I'm using (slightly older, slightly modified) jpackage Sun RPMs with >> Sun's >> 1.5.0_01 source, and they are working fine. >> > > Sun offers a Linux rpm package for the latest version of the JRE, > 1.5.0 Update 2. There is no need to compile the source unless you > want the source for another purpose. Just go to > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp, click on the "Download > JRE 5.0 Update 2" link., agree to the license agreement, and download > the JRE, Netbeans or the source. It's your choice. I have used that version, and I never could get it to work with Firefox. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCSH3pTrLwU5vrsNYRArFtAJ9m8mJiFPf52chIxxqB2eWPL0RzkQCgiHws f3gU2I0fdAUSSsAfUOkpaoY= =zI/Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
